September 7 2004

Rebottaro
is using IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing server, which
supports presence capabilities within Nektar's portal of collaborative
applications and online training courses. "We use presence to find
instructors, authors of documents and in chat rooms for team members,"
Rebottaro says....
"It's fair to say that presence
is a relatively nascent technology, but we see the concept eventually expanding
beyond people to servers and applications," says Ken Bisconti, IBM's
vice president of messaging products.